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[CITE: 42USC5901]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
         CHAPTER 74--NONNUCLEAR ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
 
Sec. 5901. Congressional statement of findings

    The Congress hereby finds that--
    (a) The Nation is suffering from a shortage of environmentally 
acceptable forms of energy.
    (b) Compounding this energy shortage is our past and present failure 
to formulate a comprehensive and aggressive research and development 
program designed to make available to American consumers our large 
domestic energy reserves including fossil fuels, nuclear fuels, 
geothermal resources, solar energy, and other forms of energy. This 
failure is partially because the unconventional energy technologies have 
not been judged to be economically competitive with traditional energy 
technologies.
    (c) The urgency of the Nation's energy challenge will require 
commitments similar to those undertaken in the Manhattan and Apollo 
projects; it will require that the Nation undertake a research, 
development, and demonstration program in nonnuclear energy technologies 
with a total Federal investment which may reach or exceed 
$20,000,000,000 over the next decade.
    (d) In undertaking such program, full advantage must be taken of the 
existing technical and managerial expertise in the various energy fields 
within Federal agencies and particularly in the private sector.
    (e) The Nation's future energy needs can be met if a national 
commitment is made now to dedicate the necessary financial resources, to 
enlist our scientific and technological capabilities, and to accord the 
proper priority to developing new nonnuclear energy options to serve 
national needs, conserve vital resources, and protect the environment.

(Pub. L. 93-577, Sec. 2, Dec. 31, 1974, 88 Stat. 1879.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 93-577 provided that: ``This Act [enacting this 
chapter] may be cited as the `Federal Nonnuclear Energy Research and 
Development Act of 1974'.''
